Dahl’s Law Dictionary: French-English Third Edition By: Henry Saint Dahl & Tamera Boudreau “The newest edition of this exceptional tool for legal professionals is now available! Dahl’s Law Dictionary links two separate languages and two diverse legal systems, assuring that attorneys never use the wrong name or term. The third…
Criminal Law Library Blog
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter May 15, 2008
Top ten stories: Family Law Wife Sues Husband for Share of Secret $600K Lottery Win May 12, 2008, 02:29 pm CDT “It was a secret that surely could not be kept for long. But Arnim Ramdass allegedly tried. The airline mechanic, 52, disconnected the phone line at home and forbade…
California Supreme Court: In Re: Marriage Cases
From: Breaking Documents, Findlaw May 15, 2008. California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban IN RE: MARRIAGE CASES “(Calif. Supreme Court, May 15, 2008) – California’s highest court rules that the state’s treatment of same-sex couples differently by failing to designate a gay or lesbian couple’s official union a ‘marriage’…
Harvard Law School Faculty Approves Open Access Policy for Scholarly Publications
The May 13, 2008 issue of the Library Journal Academic Newswire reports that Harvard University Law School (HLS) has adopted an open access policy for making its scholarly publications available online. Quoting from the Academic Newswire report: “The Harvard University Law School (HLS) faculty last week followed the lead of…
AALL Presents the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Edward Grosek*
AALL presents the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Edward Grosek for his work, The Secret Treaties of History. As the title states, the book indexes treaties that nations entered into secretly. Some treaties trace back as early as 499 A.D. The result of the longtime effort of Grosek, this…
In Memory of Professor Roy M. Mersky
It is with regret and sadness that I forward information from Ann Fessenden, AALL President of the passing of Professor Roy M. Mersky, Professor of law and Director of the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library and Jamail Center for Legal Research since 1965. I have known and from time-to-time…
ABA Criminal Justice Section 2008 Spring Conference
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Book Review: On The Laps of Gods: The Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation
From time to time we hope to post book reviews on this blog. Philip Blue our Senior Law Librarian has just written a very interesting review of a fascinating book. We hope you enjoy both the review and the book: TITLE: ON THE LAPS OF GODS SUBTITLE: The Red Summer…
National Launch of Self Representation Leadership Package, September 8-10, 2008
The following e-mail was received from Richard Zorza, Access to Justice: As many of your have heard, in September 2008, the Self-Represented Litigation Network will be launching its leadership package entitled: Court Leadership and Self-Represented Litigation Solutions for Access, Effectiveness, and Efficiency. Following the model of last years successful judicial…
AALL State-by-State Survey and Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
An Introduction* David Badertscher How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) published the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources (Authentication Report) that answers this very important and timely question. The comprehensive report examines and draws conclusions from the…